Planning a Plot Without a ‘Net
(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)
Country people used to look to the sky for gardening advice, and some still do, taking cues from the phases of the moon, the positions of the constellations, the angle of the sun, the shape of the clouds. More typically now, a tiny, slow-moving dot of light beams an endless stream of fact and fiction to the satellite dishes in their yards, and thence to their PCs and Macs. Tidbits of plant lore appear with a click of the mouse. The right time to sow chervil root? Click! A source of Italian peppers? Click!
Country people used to look to the sky for gardening advice, and some still do, taking cues from the phases of the moon, the positions of the constellations, the angle of the sun, the shape of the clouds. More typically now, a tiny, slow-moving dot of light beams an endless stream of fact and fiction to the satellite dishes in their yards, and thence to their PCs and Macs. Tidbits of plant lore appear with a click of the mouse. The right time to sow chervil root? Click! A source of Italian peppers? Click!
